Interpretation of the Meaning of Ancient Poems in Birding Creek

The meaning of the ancient poetry of Bird-singing Creek-there is no human voice in silence, only the sound of osmanthus falling gently. On a quiet night, the green hills and forests are even more empty. The bright moon rose, which alarmed several perched mountain birds. The crisp chirping echoed in the empty mountain stream for a long time.

Introduction of works

Bird-singing Stream is the first poem of Five Miscellaneous Talks on Yunxi of Huangfuyue written by Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty.

This poem depicts the tranquility and beauty of the spring night in the mountains, with the focus on the tranquility and beauty of the spring night in the mountains. The whole poem closely follows the word "static", much like a picture of landscape sketch. With moving scenery such as falling flowers, moonrise and birdsong, the poet highlights the quietness of the spring mountain on a moonlit night, achieves the artistic effect of static contrast, and vividly outlines a poetic picture of the bat "Tonamiyama is more secluded". The whole poem is aimed at writing quietly, but it is handled with moving scenery. This contrast is very obvious to the poet's Zen and interest.

original work

Niaomingjian

[Tang] Wang Wei

People are idle, osmanthus flowers fall, and the night is quiet and empty.

When the moon comes out, the birds are startled, and the sound enters the spring stream.

Sentence annotation

(1) Birding Stream: Birds are singing in the mountain stream.

⑵ People are idle: it means that there is no interference from personnel activities. Leisure: quiet, leisurely, which means silence. Osmanthus fragrans: This refers to osmanthus fragrans, with different varieties such as spring flowers and autumn flowers. What is written here is a kind of spring flower.

(3) Spring Mountain: the mountain in spring. Also refers to Chunshan Middle School. Empty: empty, empty. Empty. At this time, Shan Ye was described as silent, as if there was nothing.

(4) Moonrise: The moon rises. To disturb or disturb. Mountain bird: a bird in the mountains.

5]: occasionally (sometimes) crow. Time: Sometimes, occasionally.

Translation of works

People's activities are very few, only osmanthus flowers fall silently, and the valley in silent spring is silent and empty at night.

The bright moon rose and shone brightly, which alarmed the birds living in the mountains. From time to time, they flew high and sang in the spring stream.

Creation background

Wang Wei's "Bird Sound Stream" is based on the stable and unified prosperous Tang society when Kaiyuan (713-741) traveled to the south of the Yangtze River. This poem is the first of a series of poems entitled Five Topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi written by Wang Wei's good friend Huangfuyue, who lives in Yunxi Mountain Villa. It is the work of a poet who lives in Wuxi (Ruoshuixi) in the southeast of Shaoxing County.

According to "Biography of Wang Wei in the New Tang Dynasty", Wang Wei was a scholar at the beginning of Kaiyuan, and was later named Tai Lecheng. He was demoted to join the army in the same warehouse in Jeju because he was a performer who jumped the yellow lion. It was not until Zhang Jiuling came to power in the 23rd year of Kaiyuan (735) that he returned to Beijing as the right prime minister. Regarding Wang Wei's resume, Zhu Yuebing, a Shaoxing cultural researcher, said in the "Examination of Wang Wei's Deeds in Vietnam": "Wang Wei roamed Wu Yue for nearly fifteen years from the eighth year of Tang Kaiyuan to the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan. ..... There is every reason to say that his masterpieces such as Song of Birds, Autumn Night in a Mountain and Acacia were all written in Vietnam. " Wang Wei wandered around Ruoye, feeling the scene in front of him, and thinking of the famous sentences that predecessors described Ruoye River. He wants to compete with the ancients to win the blue, and he wins the blue, so he has a wonderful poem "When the moon rises, the birds are surprised, and when the spring comes, it is in the stream". From the analysis of the style and artistic conception embodied in the poem Bird Sound Stream, this poem should be written in the period of "Kaiyuan Prosperity" of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and it is the work of Wang Wei in his youth.

works appreciation

There are different opinions about the osmanthus in this poem. One explanation is that there are different kinds of sweet-scented osmanthus, including spring flowers, autumn flowers and four-season flowers. Here is a kind of spring flowers. Another view is that literary and artistic creation does not have to copy life. It is said that Wang Wei's "Yuan An Lying in the Snow" has green plantains in the snow, and things that cannot appear at the same time in real life are allowed in literary and artistic creation. But this poem is one of the five miscellaneous topics of Huangfuyue Yunxi where Wang Wei's friends live. Each of the five poems describes a landscape, which is close to landscape sketch, but different from ordinary freehand brushwork. Therefore, it is appropriate to interpret it as the real spring laurel in the mountains at this time.

Cinnamon has lush leaves and tiny petals. Flowers, especially at night, are not easy to detect. So the word "people are free" at the beginning can't be read easily. "People are idle" means that there is no human disturbance around, indicating the poet's inner leisure. On this premise, the delicate osmanthus fell from the branches before being noticed. Poets can find this kind of "falling" through the touch of flowers falling on their skirts, or through the sound, or through the slightest fragrance when petals fall. In short, the factors that "depravity" can affect people are very subtle. When this subtle factor can be clearly felt from the surrounding world, the poet can't help but marvel at the silence of the night and the special emptiness shown by this silence. Here, the poet's mood and the environmental atmosphere of Chunshan blend and influence each other.

In this spring mountain, everything is intoxicated with the color and tranquility of the night. Therefore, when the moon rises, bringing bright Yin Hui to this empty valley shrouded in darkness, all the birds in the mountain are startled. Birds are surprised, of course, because they are used to the silence of the valley. It seems that even the moon rises with new excitement. But it is also conceivable that the bright moonlight makes the scene before and after the valley suddenly change. The so-called "moon stars are scarce, birds fly south" (Cao Cao's "Short Songs") readers can associate it. However, Wang Wei lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which was different from the chaos in Jian 'an period, and even birds and animals were nervous. The background of Wang Wei's Mountain Birds on the Moon is a stable, unified and prosperous society in the Tang Dynasty. Although the bird is surprised, it is by no means "three turns around the tree, no branches to follow." They don't fly away from the spring stream, or even take off at all, but occasionally make noises in the Woods. They are not so much "surprised" as feeling fresh about the moon coming out. Therefore, if we compare Cao Cao's "A Short Song", in Wang Wei's poems, we can not only see the beautiful environment of spring mountain dotted with bright moon, fallen flowers and birds, but also feel the peaceful and stable social atmosphere in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Wang Wei likes to create a peaceful artistic conception in his landscape poems, and so does this poem. But the poem is about flowers falling, the moon rising and birds singing. These moving scenery not only make the poem look full of vitality, but also show the tranquility of the spring through movement. On the contrary, dynamic scene can achieve static effect, because the two sides of contradiction are always interdependent. Under certain conditions, movement can occur or be noticed, which is based on silence. "Tonamiyama is more secluded" contains artistic dialectics.

Famous comments

Liu Chenweng's comments on Wang Meng's poems: No intention. Gu Yun: The so-called real person. You Yun: What is the limit of leisure?

Gao Yun's "The Sound of Tang Poetry": Closed to the outside world, happy and not lonely.

Zhong Xing and Tan returned from Tang poetry: Gordon pai' ea chung-hoon: the word "Jing" is wonderful (under the sentence "The moon is out")! Gordon pai' ea chung-hoon: Silence.

Excerpt from Zhu Zhijing's "Adding Tang Poetry": A bird scares the moon and talks about the hollow mountains.

Xu Zeng's Poems of the Tang Dynasty in Er 'anshuo: "The night is quiet and the mountains are empty", and the poems are all in line with the holy religion. With these five words, it is unnecessary to read the Twelve Classics. "When the spring water sings, both the husband and the birds are in Chunshan. The moon surprises the birds, and the birds surprise the stream. The birds sing in the trees, but their voices are in the stream. This is a pure chemical substance, which is beyond human touch.

Wu Xuan and Hu Tang's Notes on Samadhi Collection of Tang Xian and Shen Qing. Gu Yun: I am not practical in such a beautiful scene.

Notes on Huang Shucan's Tang poems: It's wonderful that idle people lead this leisure.

Shen Deqian's Tang Poetry: Poetry is silent and smelly, beyond the norm, and it is difficult for future generations to imitate it, so it is difficult to know.

Li E's "A Brief Record of Poems": birdsong, motivation also; This stream is very narrow. But I put the words "the night is quiet and the mountains are empty" first, and then I point out the birdsong stream, which feels like an empty scene, because birdsong is more and more obvious and exposed outside the pen and ink. The slicer can be reached without manpower.

Song Gule's Selected Comments on Ten Thousand Poems of Tang Poetry: The following two sentences only express the meaning of "emptiness".

Hu Yinglin's poem: Taibai five words, naturally said by the gods, but successful meditation, such as "When people are free, osmanthus flowers fall ..." Forget the life experience and lose all thoughts.

Yu Biyun's A Brief Introduction to Poetic Realm: In the past, people said that "Yingong Mountain is more secluded", and there is movement in silence, so is this poem.

Brief introduction of the author

Wang Wei, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The word stroke. His father was originally from Qi (now Shanxi) and later moved to Yongji West, Shanxi, becoming a Hedong native. Kaiyuan (year number of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, 713-741) was a scholar. Tired officials give things. An Lushan rebels were hired when they were trapped in Chang 'an. After the chaos, they were demoted to Prince Zhongyun. After the official to ministers right cheng, so also known as Wang Youcheng. In his later years, he lived in Wangchuan, Lantian, and lived an honest and secluded life. Poetry is as famous as Meng Haoran and is called "Wang Meng". In the early stage, I wrote some frontier poems, but the most important one was landscape poems, which promoted hermit life and Buddhism through the description of pastoral landscapes. Exquisite objects, vivid descriptions and unique achievements. He is also proficient in music, painting and calligraphy. This is Wang Youcheng.